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Works (20); Catherine: a Story. Men's Wives. the Bedford-Row Conspiracy
Works Catherine a Story Men's Wives the BedfordRow Conspiracy - 20 Author:William Makepeace Thackeray Volume: 20 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1902 Original Publisher: Smith, Elder Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com wher... more »e you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. IN WHICH ARE DEPICTED THE PLEASURES OF A SENTIMENTAL ATTACHMENT. I T will not be necessary, for the purpose of this history, to follow out very closely all the adventures which occurred to Mrs. Catherine from the period when she quitted the " Bugle " and became the Captain's lady; for, although it would be just as easy to show as not, that the young woman, by following the man of her heart, had only yielded to an innocent impulse, and by remaining with him for a certain period, had proved the depth and strength of her affection for him, -- although we might make very tender and eloquent apologies for the error of both parties, the reader might possibly be disgusted at such descriptions and such arguments : which, besides, are already done to his hand in the novel of " Ernest Maltravers " before mentioned. From the gentleman's manner towards Mrs. Catherine, and from his brilliant and immediate success, the reader will doubtless have concluded, in the first place, that Gustavus Adolphus had not a very violent affection for Mrs. Cat; in the second place, that he was a professional lady-killer, and therefore likely at some period to resume his profession ; thirdly, and to conclude, that a connexion so begun, must, in the nature of things, be likely to end speedily. And so, to do the Count justice. it would, if he had been allowed to follow his own inclination entirely ; for (as many young gentlemen will, and yet no praise to them) in about a week he began to beindifferent, in a month to be weary, in two months to be angry, in three to proceed to...« less